Improvement in apparatus for heating and ventilating buildings



VUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOEL STOVER, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA-X.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FOR HEATING AND VENTILATING BUILDINGS.

Spccilicniion forming par! of l'icllcrs Palent No. 108,202, dated Urtolwr il,"lr".ll

.To all whom it may concern:

je it known that l, JOEL Srovnn, of Rich v mond, Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Apparatus for Heating` and 'Ventilating nildings; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had `to the drawings which accompany this specification, and which form a part of the same, and to the letters of vrelbrenee marked thereon., in whichm- Figure l, Plate 1, is aperspective View showing the furnace in the basement, and the arrangements and devices for heating and Ventilating on thev first and second stories of a building. Fig. 1, Plate 2, is a vertical sectional View taken at the line shown in red, x ai, as seen on Fig. 2, llate Fig. 2, Plate 2, is a iop vView of the furnace',chambers, and' pipes which l employ in my invention.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the drawings and specification.

To enable those skilled in the art to construct and use my said invention, IfwillV proceed to describe the same.

Aln the drawings. llla-tc 1, Fig. 1, A A represent the walls of a building, and B B represent the floors of the same.- C C represent the basement of .the building, j 1r which the furnace D is placed, and 'E E ll are uesbuilt in the walls Av A. F Il are Ventilating-openings, which communicate with thc flue E, and are placed in the walls near the ceiling of the room.. lt will be seen, however, that D in Fig. l, llate l, is only the representation of the outside fire-proof casingof the furnace, and the construction and object of the same will more particularly appear in the explanation of llate 2, Fig. 1.

,ln Plate 2, Fig. l, G is a furnace of circular form, and constructed of a. series of concentric rings formed with shoulders a a a a, which can be made of any requisite size or height. tsurroumling this furnace is an airchamber in which hot air is generated, (marked 1,) and which is carried by means of a pipe, I, up tlnfougli un opening in the wall to the second IIoor, li', where it is discharged into a register-box, N, from whence it is admitted into the room, as may be desired, to produce ihe required temperature. The furnace G is provided with a chimney, Il, affording the imzcssanr draft.- as well as the means of carry ing off the products of combustion. -This chimney passes upward through 4the proper fines in the wall, and serves to heat chainbers 2, Il, and 1, as seen in Fig. 1, 'Plate 2. Outside of chamber l, and within the shell ol' the fire-proof casing l), is airchamber 2,hav ing its conductor-qiipc .la.nd connecting with register-borchr on the iirst iloor, B..

A A representthe `ioisis or framings which constitute the floors ll .3. Another air-cham ber (marked 3) receives its heat radially from the furnace G, and is outside of and in a meas nre dependent upon 1 and 2 for its heat, but differs from them in recei\f'ing heat from the chimney ll and the pipe (l, which connects with the iloor I by means of the registen box N.

\V is 'a rectilinear llue built to the inner 'Surface of the wall, nini provided with a diivision-wall which consi itutes two separate and distinct perpendicular openings, the bases of which are in the basement. The two ilues ineluded in IV are provided with openings N N for register-boxes, and they also cont-ain the chimney H and receive the Ventilating diseharge'pipes L L, the lower ends of which are connected with ventilator-boxes M M, placed `at or near thefloors l E?, for the purpose'of air-as, for instance, on iioorl by the pipe J from air-chamber 2.

The furnace G may be constructed in the ordinary form, or may be composed 4of a series o1 rings, as indicated by reference-letters a u. u. n, with gratc-bars e and ash-pan d. The

lower portion of the furnace is supplied with the necessary draft ol' air by the opening bf, which is capable of being regulated by the valve b," l `ig, il. rIlhe rod regulating this valve may be of an)` required length, and operated 'from the basement or any one ol' the floors above".Y

lfn the chambers Il and4, which are contained in the perpendicular casing oriincVV, are hori'. zontal plates 0 O, which serre as divisionplates, checkii'ag` the ascending currents of heated air and securing the delivery of the same into the apartment to be warmed through the register-boxes, as shown at N N.

M M are Ventilating-boxes placed in the side Walls of the apartment at or near the floor, and connected with which are pipes or tubes L L, inelosed in the walls, and which are placed at such an angle as will give the requisite circulation and draft, and which have their discharge in one ot' the a )artmeuts of the-line Ti".

The pipes or tubes II J I, as shown in the top View, Plate L, Fig. 2, indicate the manner of connecting thenhcating devices with the differentrooms or apartments. and in connection with the separate and independent airchambers surrounding the furnace, from which they receive the supply of heatedvair. By this arrangement different apartments in the same building can be kept at differentgrades n rooms by means of the currents of heated air Which are used in Warming the rooms; and in the third place I `provide for the connection of the rooms by means of separate pipes with the dilfercnt chambers which surround the furnace, and all of which are inclosed within the fire-proof casing of the same, by which sepaY rate and fully independent temperatures may be easily regulated and niaintainedin the different rooms of any dwelling or other building. l

Having thus fully described my said invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by' Letters Patent, is-

l. The independent chambers l, 2, 3, and 4, in combination with the furnace 'G and the chimney H, as and for the purposes herein set forth.

2. The double iue XV, the Ventilating-openings F F, and the register-boes N N, in coinbination with the chimney H and the chambers 3 and It. substantially in the manner and for the purposes herein set forth and described. 3. 'Ihe pipes L L, as shown, the vent-Hatingboxes M M, the division-plates O O, and the register-boxes N N, when arranged, combined, and4 operated in the manner and for the purposes herein forth and described.

4. The arrangement and combination of the furuaceG, the air-chambers l, 2, 3, and 4, the valve b, the opening e, and the chimney H, in

. the manner and for the purposes set forth.

5. Constructing a furnace surrounded with air-chambers l and 2, and incased in fire-proof covering of any desired material, by which the furnace is disconnected ,from any outside inliainmable material, in the manner and. for the purposes herein set forth and fully do-A seribed.

JOEL STOVER.

Vitnesses:

W. T. DENNIS, Jo HN A. -HA iwns'r nn. 

